NEW YORK / OSLO (Dagbladet): the Police have identified Gary Martin (45) as the supposed culprit behind the masseskytingen in Aurora, Illinois, Friday evening, Norwegian time.
Commissioner Kirsten Ziman, says according to CNN that Martin was an employee of the company where the shooting happened, and that etteforskerne have not yet found any clear evidence.
Martin should have shot and killed five other people and injured several others before he himself was shot and killed by police in a dramatic politiaksjone in the u.s. city of Aurora, six miles west of Chicago. the
the Messages came about an active ongoing shooting was confirmed around at 21.30 Friday night. Just after the clock 22.00 notified the police that they had control of the suspected shooter.
Among the injured were four policemen. The condition of all four must be stable. There are also reports of other injured, but their condition is not known.
Great turnout
Several schools in the area were closed during the skyteepisoden, and a variety of nødetater responded to the scene Friday.
MAJOR ACTION: All the emergency services were on site with large forces on Friday. Photo: Bev Horne/Daily Herald via AP/NTB Scanpix Show more
the Shooting happened at the factory Henry Pratt Company, a large company that among other things, stock valves. The suspected shooter is going to even have worked at the factory.
An employee at the factory, John Probst, managed to escape out of the factory when the shooting began.
He told ABC Chicago that he saw a man he recognized as a colleague. According to Probst should the man have held a gun with a laser sight.
There was around 30 people in the building during the shooting, ” he says.
– Shot random around
According to him, he saw several of his other colleagues get injured, and describes that the shooter was shooting randomly around him.
– One of the guys was up in the office, and said that this person shot. He came to the races down and was bleeding pretty powerful. Suddenly the shooter back and forth. I heard more shots before we left the building, ” he says.
According to the he did he and another colleague to escape out a bakvei from the factory.
We were just afraid, ” he says.
Diana Muriz, who works nearby, told NBC Chicago that one of her customers heard several shots.
the Customer said that they heard one shot, then several shots. It was “boom, boom, boom,” she says.
